Month: May 2026

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Featured: Marcello Hernandez, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, Nikki Glaser, Michael Cruz Caine

What’s in This Episode

• Marcello Hernandez Netflix Special and Cultured 100 Recognition
• Stephen Colbert CBS Contract Negotiations and Show Ending
• Conan O’Brien in Amsterdam Filming New Travel Special
• Nikki Glaser Podcast Headlines About Relationship Openness
• Michael Cruz Caine Comedy Special on Grief and Loss

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Acent is the algorithm loves. Cultured magazine put out their Cultured one hundred. One of the Cultured one hundred is Marcelo Hernandez, who, in my opinion, does one thing, and does one thing well but culture It said.

In his four seasons of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez has played, in no particular order, an emo teen, a soul patch wearing wife stealer named Domingo. Yeah he’s done that, one, a frozen embryo, and himself patron saint of short Kings for the culture. At one hundred, he was interviewed by my former coworker Jimmie Fox. Fox said, you’re good looking, he got the swag. Now that the specials in your review mirror.

How are you feeling, Marcelo Hernandez said, looking back, I can say to myself, I gave it every single piece of me. When we called you, I was sitting there going crazy, and after a conversation, I was like, yo, Jamie Fox is the regulator. You put it in perspective, like it’s already shot. It’s too late to be freaking out. I wasn’t enjoying it.

I was suffering it. Fox said, Okay, let me give you this Michael Jackson Billy Jean Motown twenty five iconic. But he went backstage after and cried because he thought it was the worst performance of his life. You can’t always see what we see, so I told you get in the Ferrari pull out and have a great time. That special had like forty six and a half million views.

I just want to see how that feels. What’s it like to be on top of the mountain? Man? Did it at forty six and a half? What was that even on other Remember it was on Netflix.

I will have to take Jamie Fox’s word for the forty six and a half million views. Marcelo said, I’ll tell you what, Jamie. When I first started doing comedy, I wrote down on my little yellow pad the two people I wanted to be like. I wrote, I want to be physical like Eddie Murphy. I want to be meticulous like Jerry Seinfeld.

And that As I got older and I started to see more, when we started thinking about how we want to shoot the special I thought, I want to shoot it like prior. I want to be sweaty, I want to flowy shirt. You know. Richard Pryor filmed in Miami, and so did I. I wanted to tef Greens look old school, look vintage.

Yeah, so when you said you wanted to be like Eddie Murphy, that was the point. Eddie Murphy’s just doing. Richard Pryor watched the specials back to back. Now, this is interesting aut of Stephen Colbert. In that New York Times profile, Colbert said CBS tried to renew him for as long as five years.

During negotiations in twenty twenty three, Colbert went for a three year extension. Oops, one might say, Colbert told the Times less than two years before they called to say it’s over. They were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So something changed. As for what’s next, the show takes like ninety five percent of my brain.

He won’t seriously consider new opportunities until he has a little more time to breathe. Now, Colbert reportedly makes fifteen million dollars a year. And here’s some advice from Johnny Mac. If somebody ever offers you fifteen million dollars a year, Just say yes. That’s generational changing money.

And if they’re like, hey, we’ll give you fifteen million dollars a year for five years, and now if you do some math, that’s seventy five million dollars, you say yes. Especially on the talent side. You know what was gonna happen. NBC is going to go, hey, we’ll give you sixteen million dollars a year. That wasn’t going to happen.

Just say yes, What are you doing, dude. Conan O’Brien, who settled with NBC for reported forty five million dollars. When The Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno, took the Tonight Show back, Conan was seen in the Netherlands. He was taping a new episode of Conan O’Brien Must Go. Conan was spotted celebrating King’s Day in Amsterdam, then went on Dutch talk show Eva.

Conan said, we showed up, my wife and I got here at six in the morning and I went out on King’s Day, absolute madness day, drinking, which I’m used to. That’s my sport. They seem to be making an episode involving fashion. Conan explained one of my fans. It’s a high fashion model here in Amsterdam, and she said she could teach me how to be a male model.

I showed up, I met with her, and she told me at the end, this isn’t gonna work. She was very disappointed in me. Conan says his show is less interested in educating viewers about a country than putting Conan in absurd situations. We’ve all watched travel shows. They tried to teach you about the country.

I want you at the end of my program to know nothing about the country. I want you to maybe even be dumber than you were at the start of the show. Conan is impressed by the Netherlands, particularly that people are tall and have bikes. He said, so many tall people. I’ve met, so many women that make me feel short.

And everyone’s on a bicycle, which I love. In the United States, when you get on a bicycle, people dress up in these crazy outfits. Here you just see people riding their bikes in normal clothes. Nikki Glaser admits she wasn’t necessarily prepared for the reaction to her, saying that she’s open to her man fulling around. You remember that old story, Yeah, Hollywood Establishment insider Nikki Glaser was on Karras Swishers podcast, So it’s over.

That’s it. If we’re gonna line up the comedians and say who’s an insider, who’s an outsider? Nikki Glaser’s paling around with Kara Swisher, that’s it. She’s done. Don’t expect her to be a roast comedian or doing any of that.

The agents have successfully completed the mission. Hollywood insider Nikki Glaser told Kara Swisher I wasn’t even thinking about censoring myself in any way that this podcast makes headlines, meaning call her daddy. But Nicky said she woke up to headlines saying that she likes for her boyfriend asleep with other women. Nikki explained, it was like five different headlines showing up in my feed, and I don’t even follow myself. I don’t look for news about myself.

I avoided at all costs. It was just really embarrassing. Yes it was. Esquire wrote a piece the headline, this new comedy special completely shocked me with joy, they write. Michael Cruz Caine’s son Fisher, died from sepsis in two thousand and nine, just thirty four days after he was born, Fisher’s twin brother lived, and Caine and his wife Carrie also have a daughter.

The family’s world was destroyed. It needed to be rebuilt. Ten years later, Caine stand up comics started writing on Twitter about his grief. The comment started coming in by the thousands. The tweets turned into a one man show that Caine titled Sorry for Your Loss, which is the kind of phrase that shows up on cards.

Caine told Esquire, Yeah, the show’s about grief, specifically about how I felt, starting from the moment my son died, which was in two thousand and nine, untill now, because the grief continues. It’s an honest reflection on those feelings, and a lot a lot of that is comedy, because I’m a funny person. Even in the worst possible situation, there are still things that, if you’re a human, will make you laugh. I didn’t want to hide from those things and pretend not to see them. I just wanted to feel free and be myself as opposed to trying to be a quote unquote grieving person.

People have an expectation of what someone who’s grieving will be like, but all that stuff made me feel alienated from people. What made me feel good was talking to people who talk to me like I was a person. I know you, you’re my friend. Can we just talk how we normally talk? As for the special, he says, once you release it into the world, you lose a lot of control over how people receive it.

It’s funny. The New York Times did a piece about like how grief in comedy a few years ago that I was in. I read all the comments. A large percentage of them were like, what kind of sicko experiences some kind of tragedy then tries to turn it into jokes. I guess they hadn’t seen it, so that’s what they think.

It is that one is called sorry for your loss. He is Michael Cruz, Keane Kay and E Interview magazine caught up with Ronica Slowakowska. They did a little free association short form. She said, easier in ways, harder in ways. SNL’s a form of It’s not exactly live.

It’s edited on the spot about attention, spans, short and screwed up. But I don’t think all is lost. I can totally binge Sister Wives Delivery. I’m a corporate slot person. Rice Bowls protein a vegetable, something that’s sustaining my energy and making me think good.

I’m obsessed with this place that is Brussels sprouts. Whatever we order it. Everyone’s offices smell like farts actors. She says, I feel like I was right in the middle of comedian and actor. But since getting on SNL, I’ve chosen a side as being a comedian cooler.

I don’t know. Maybe about sleep. SNL gives us time to sleep, but will you sleep is the question. I’m just damped up. I’m excited tonight’s writing nights.

Am I going to go home at midnight? Or am I going to go home at four am? It’s kind of up to me. A few weeks ago, Ay Lorne Michael’s documentary came out. The Oler reporter said, Lorne Michaels has been enigmatic and evasive for long enough that he doesn’t seem more or less uncomfortable having a camera in his vicinity, knowing dorn Well that he isn’t going to let anything slip by by accident.

This same principle lets director Neville linger in Michael’s office, and even in the film’s closest to revelatory moments at Michael’s lakeside get away in Maine. Nothing Michael says is all that revealing or candid, but Nevill’s eyes are still loud to wander, inviting viewers to latch onto Michael’s life ephemera and read meaning into it. It’s his love of Gordoney and extension of his devotion to cultivating talent. He won’t say so, but maybe is his office filled with fish that he refuses to name as a mirror of the constant rotation of cast members of his best known show, Don’t Know, not surprisingly that people with the loosest lips are people who no longer rely on Michael’s for a paycheck. With many of the highlights coming from John Mulaney, Fred Ormison, Bill Hayter, and Adam Sandler swapping stories, Mulaney, like Tina fay Conan O’Brien and a few of the veteran writers, gives the strongest impressions of knowing where the bodies are and buried when it comes to revealing details about Michaels, but each other people who appear to know him best has and I can never repay Lorne story that makes it clear that they aren’t saying anything Lorn wouldn’t once said if Michaels were to retire after the season, Neville’s documentary could be shown at his retirement party without anybody feeling awkward.

The av Club said that Lauren the documentary fights a losing battle against all the other Sketch Show history lessons. They write, SNL has been so celebrated, chronicled, and mythologized that it seems impossible to imagine anything new to say about the Sketch Show, but documentarian Morgan Neville gives it a shot. Narrated by Chris Parnell, Lauren establishes early on that Michaels isn’t particularly interested in the movie being made about him. Michaels presents himself as we often see him, dressed up, gray hair, button down, a tad aloof The result does a likable film that auto appeal to SNL fans and hardcore comedy nerds. As an SNL history lesson, Lauren will feel rudimentary to those already be sotted up by the show.

As a portrait of Michael’s early years and comedy beginnings. The documentary passes by key biographical details too quickly for them to fully register. And the program’s memorable sketches have been played to death by this point. If somehow you’re just now getting an SNL and having a ready ingested, endless lore about the most aduring of sketch shows, Lorne might be a meaningful primer for everybody else. You’ve heard this joke before.

All Right, the Netflix is a joke of festival is about to kick off. They are highlighting the short list, a showcase spotlighting nationally touring comment These are not newcomers, but rising voices on the cusp of their next chapter. We are told, so kind of new faces, but different. Here’s your list. Comedian CP aka Chris Powell, writer and performer who’s comedy special Sunday After Six debuted in twenty twenty five.

Ethan Simon’s Patterson a stand up comedian who’s been featured on Comedy Central and is a regular at The Seller. Gabby Bryan is a New York based stand up comedian, actress, podcaster, and Emmy winning producer. Lucas Zilnik a stand up comedian, born, raised and based in New York City, featured on Comedy Central. Matty Wiener stand up comedian who made her fallon debut last year and his filmed to stand up sets for Comedy Central and Don’t Tell Comedy Opie Alakbaju, La based stand up comic who’s been recognized by Vulture as one of the comics you should and will know. Peter Ravello, stand up comedian, actor, and writer based in New York.

He debuted on Fallon and has appeared on Comics Unleashed, Yeah Chappelle. Lacey La based stand up comedian who performed at the Comedy Store and hosts a YouTube series called Cooked in the Comments. Sophie Buttle, She’s kind Of No No. Sophie was the head monologue writer for CBS’s After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson and has appeared on Fallon Cordon and CBC’s This Hour Is Twenty two Minutes. And Zach ned Towers, LA based comedian, actor and writer who appeared on Netflix’s Dear White People.

Those are the short list. The showcase takes place tomorrow, two shows starting at six o’clock. And that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow

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Featured: Catherine Blandford, Max Amini, Hannibal Buress, Jeff Dunham, David Spade, Chris Allen

What’s in This Episode

• Catherine Blandford’s rise to comedy after viral parents joke, opening for David Spade
• Max Amini on Iranian culture, social media’s role in his comedy career, and comedy’s growth in Iran
• Hannibal Buress’s Charlottesville show with multimedia elements and hour-and-a-half set
• Jeff Dunham’s new Discovery show ‘The Cars that Drove Us’ and comedy club audience sensitivity
• Jeff Dunham discusses comedy timing and cancel culture in modern stand-up

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, their Happy Derby Day. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Catherine Blandford is an amy she’d keep an eye on. She’s been to the Derby.

She said. I was in college and took my roommate to the Derby with me. She’d never been to Kentucky. I was like, porta potty racist tradition. I forgot to tell her it’s illegal.

She gets to the end and she’s dancing and celebrating and people are cheering and the cops are waiting for her to get down. I was hiding, and she was like, I’m a team mom, It’s my first night out. She went to the drunk tank for the rest of the Derby. Ha Lanford started performing comedy at the University of South Carolina. She says, I’ve done a competition for a fraternity when I was in college.

It was like a pageant. You had to do a talent portion. I wrote a sketch like I was Chelsea Handler. That’s when her show Chelsea Lately was big. I roasted a bunch of frat guys and then did an interview with the pledge from their fraternities, Charlie Sheen.

Obviously we won and I kinda had the bug. She hit it big in twenty twenty two when a clip of her joking about her parents being cousins went viral. David Spade saw the clip and they connected. Blandford started opening for Spade. That lasted two years.

She started headlining on her own, moved to La She’s a regular at the Improv and the Laugh Factory. She plans to record two specials this year. Interesting Maximini was asked by the Hollywood reporter do you think the rulers of Iran will ever loosen their grip? Max says, I think so, and it has I think of it as water and oil. The ideology hasn’t been able to penetrate a culture that people there have had in their DNA for centuries, go back to the attacks of the Mongols, to the Arabs, to the Greeks and so on.

These different ideologies and invasions have affected the country and the people in the culture, but the foundation cannot be destroyed. The minute young Iranians get an opportunity to show themselves. I think the world will see a very friendly, kind and enthusiastic nation who likes to smile. Look, despite forty seven years of this Islamic republic mentality, every household still has their parties and gatherings. They have art shows and man, the music they listen to.

They’re so open minded. You have social media and the younger generation of moderates. Over time, I think it’s going to de escalate. When I was in Iran, you weren’t allowed to have a cassette tape and you’d get arrested for listening to music. Today, the same regime allows concerts, obviously with a lot of guidelines, but the progression has happened.

It’s inevitable. Max says, I never really thought of the opportunity to do comedy in Iran. But when I came back to America, that true sense of freedom that I can do all these things I could have never done in Iran was the spark. When I started college, I decided to become a theater major and pursue acting in comedy. I was very funny when I did my improv with my classmates.

I discovered stand up comedy through that. In the last four or five years, a lot of young stand up comedians have popped in Iran. They’re doing open mics, and they have their little comedy cafes that didn’t previously exist in Iran. I feel like me hanging in there and doing stand up and four Sea is going to pave the way for Irunian comedians down the line to be able to tour and build from there. Right Max, what do you think he got popular?

He said, For many years, I was disappointed that the industry was not recognizing my talent. No casting director, producer director, no projects, no comedy festivals. But I’m one of the lucky people, and that social media gave me the opportunity to let the people decide who they like. The Cavalier Daily went to go see Hannibal Burris. Charlottesville comedian Chris Allen was the opener we saw.

At the end of his sets, Chris Allen offered a heartwarming introduction for Hannibal Burris, calling him a personal inspiration who proved that off kilter black comedians could succeed in the industry. Hannibal grabbed the mic and jokingly took offense to being called weird by his opener. Hannibal started with some political comedy Send your letters to Hannibal Burris, who lamented that America would be in much better shape if only Donald Trump’s television show The Apprentice had been renewed for another season before his first presidential campaign. Hannibal did some more topical jokes about the economy and the war in Iran and did an hour and a half Wow. This is different to keep things fresh throughout the set, different for Hannibal.

I’ve seen other comedians do this. Hannibal used to screen to the back of the stage to show funny text messages he received from his friends, and brief video clips that amplify the impact of certain jokes with meme like outbursts were told. The audio visual elements were you sparingly until the finale. After stepping off stage for a moment, Burris returned to an act a scenario in which a rap song he wrote called the Tallest Person at This Mexican Party became his most popular contribution to society. Seems like it was a good show.

Jeff Dunham talked about his new television show on Discovery, The Cars that Drove Us. This from the folks that made the toys that made us. In the movies that made us. Jeff Dunham and developed his love of cars from growing up on hot wheels. Remember hot wheels, fellow oldies, we were hot wheels.

Person are a matchbox guy. I was a matchbox guy. I never really liked the hot wheels matchbox bleeding cool as Jeff. If you guys get another season, do you know what cars? Jeff said, not a clue.

What I loved about this one was it with seven great cars.

And then in the eighth episode we did a call It’s called the factory.

It was some of the goofy things that car designers put in the vehicles. So we have an idea they’re not be there’s still a cars. And if you pointed a gun at me right now and said tell me which ones they are, I couldn’t do it because I can’t remember since we’ve gone through so many ideas. But I like the idea and a season of having one episode that’s an outlier, kind of a weird one. Switching to comedy, Jeff Dunham, do you have to temper your act?

You know, times are changing, tastes or changing, Jeff said, timings everything. I wouldn’t want to be a new comic coming up right now, trying to do stand up comedy because it’s been a long time since I did a show to a comedy club. But as I understand it now, especially out here in Hollywood, the audiences can be brutal if you say anything that’s somewhat too left or two right, and you will get nailed, nailed, nailed by the audience. I laugh when I talk to my daughter who’s in college in California, and she cancels me about three times a day. Now, if you listen to me every day, there’s two thousand episodes, you kind of get what my vibe is.

Right, Like I was explaining to her about Season one of Survivor. I bought this is all true. I bought the DVDs of season one of Survivor. Fellow oldies, did you watch Season one of Survivor? Remember Root the old Guy.

There’s a clip you can go on YouTube because I sent this to my daughter where one of the contestants, Rich is gay. But twenty five years ago, people are like quizzing him, like, so is it okay to say that you’re homosexual? And Rich is like, yeah, I’m homosexual. Let me pull up the clips. So you don’t cancel me.

Here’s Richard Hatch explaining, it’s okay, guys. You’re not just homosexual. I know gay guys don’t like to be called that because you’re not homosexual. You’re gay. You know you’re I’m homosexual.

Do we not like to be called? No? Because it just makes no If you classify that, it’s own classifying people’s sexual lifestyle. Right, and well, there is a lifestyle associated with being gay, but it’s not something you can’t say I decided to be gay. But it’s been interesting in this new environment to kind of decide when to say what about yourselves?

I think there’s only one person you got worried about. Oh, I’m not worry about it at all. As people get to know me, they learn who I am, and then eventually over time find out I’m gay. I’ve never once in my life encountered prejudice based on my being homosexual anyway. So I want to watch a Survivor one with my daughter just to watch her freak out and cancel me for liking a show.

Twenty five years ago, I Digress. Jeff Denham said audiences can be brutal, and if you say anything that’s somewhat too left or to right, you will get nailed by the audience. They don’t like it. When all this business started rumling a few years ago, as at a point in my career where there are two different ways you can go to comedy club. You’re either paying money just to go to the club and you know who’s going to be there, you don’t care, just want a night off, or you’re paying a little bit more to specifically see a particular person.

That’s a little bit easier because the audience who pay to see you, most of them know what to expect. When I was doing theaters and arenas, it was eighty five to ninety percent already my crowd. They already loved Acamed the Dead terrorist Jose Halapino. Want a stick. If I came about those characters right now, there’s no way they would work.

As a comic. You must, as you say, temper things, or at least I’m not gonna use the word temper. I’m going to show you how I present the comedy. And because I do it as a ventrill quist, I have a little bit of a huge advantage over the other comics because I can point and counterpoint the dummy can make a joke and I can argue with him, and I can say, ah, that’s not okay. So it’s a conversation, a debate.

I like this a lot. The true ingredients of comedy are conflict and tension. I can create that on stage myself, and by the time I’m finished with whatever I’m talking about, whatever the subject is, the audience walks away going, I really don’t know what he thinks or what he believes. Friend of the Show, Ismo, remember he was on. He was a guest.

He has teamed up with a Finland based production house they’re pushing into the live comedy space. Ismo said, it’s exciting to take the next steps with ic S Nordick. We share the same ambition to build comedy of the Travels internationally while staying true to its roots. Not entirely sure what they’re up to, but I’m behind it because he’s a cool guy. Hey are friends.

At the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. They’re starting a new premium ad free service called Gorilla Comedy Plus, launching May fifth. Gorilla Comedy Plus will feature exclusive news specials, plus the full eight hundred Pound Gorilla catalog that includes more than two hundred and fifty titles. At launch, you’ll have access to things like Star Trek Ruiner, Patton Oswalt’sle Hour’s Heat in Scotch, and specials from the likes of Pete Holmes Gorilla Comedy Plus, priced at nine to ninety nine per month. The folks from CNNs have I Got news for you.

They are Roywood Junior, Amber Ruffin, and Michael ian Black. They will be hosting the upcoming Sports News and Documentary Emmy ceremonies, but individually on different nights. On May twenty sixth, Roywood Junior will host the forty seventh Annuel Sports Emmy Awards. Michael ian Black will host the Documentary categories of the News and Documentary Emmys on Thursday, May twenty eighth. Amber Ruffin will host the news categories on Wednesday, the twenty seventh, Michael ian Black the documentary categories on the twenty eighth.

All these events take place at the Jazz at Lincoln Centers, Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. Paralyzed by Hope that Maria Bamford story recently played the Milwaukee Film Festival, filmmaker Neil Berkeley said, so many comedians these days have put her on the Mount Rushmore of the Greatest of all Time with Richard Pryor and Rodney Dangerfield. She’s that revered in this industry. I’m so tempted to bog down on a Mount Rushimore of comedy that has Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield and Maria Bamford.

That’s not too bashed Maria Bamford. But you only get four on Mount Rushmore’s. And he also gave a spot to Rodney I Digress Paralyzed by Hope. The Maria Bamford Story explores Bamford’s comedy journey and the mental health struggles that have influenced her material. Neil says, I want people to experience Maria.

I want people to know there’s this person who gets up at eight in the morning and is comedy for ten people in a bookstore, and then that weekend goes to a thousand seed theater. She has this ability to turn all of her life’s experiences into these incredibly funny but also useful stories. And this isn’t always the goal of stand up comedy. But you can go to her shows and everyone in that audience can hear something or learn about one of her experiences. That they can empathize with.

The film looks at Maria’s creative process, switching between interviews, stand up tapings, and other archival footage to show how Maria’s mental health struggles and trauma have informed her comedy. And that is your comedy news for today. I will see tomorrow.

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Featured: Colin Jost, Pete Davidson, Tim Heidecker, Robbie Hoffman, Jimmy Kimmel, Donald Trump, Adam Carolla, Ted Cruz, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• Colin Jost defends Pete Davidson’s ferry as not a money pit
• Tim Heidecker taking over Infowars
• Robbie Hoffman on relationship dynamics and travel spending
• King Charles visits United States
• Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about Trump’s marriage longevity
• Stephen Colbert returning to politics on Late Show

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Howdy. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. We’re gonna find out how good my noise reduction and plug in is because I have the fan on.

There’s just no fresh oxygen here in my little studio. I just need to circulate the air. But that’s not why you’re here. You’re here to learn more about Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s Ferry Well good news. Colin Jost was on the SmartLess podcast and says it’s very misreported that the Fairry is some sort of crazy money pit.

Colin said, I joke about it a lot, but we’ve done some events on it where we’ve already made back the money we’ve invested in, the money we’ve spent on stuff to dock it and all that. Colin says that the John F. Kennedy is the same ferry he often took when commuting to high school. He said, it was usually the seven am ferry that I took because I went up to this high school called Recha’s High School that’s up on the Upper east Side. I didn’t know, Colin jo just went to regis interesting and it’s free if you get in.

It’s a really great school. All right. What are you gonna do with the ferry now? Colin Joe said, they want to use it either as an event space or an entertainment venue. But it’s been a long process to try and find a place to dock it.

Colin says, I was thinking in a real estate way, if you put it somewhere, it’s seventy thousand square feet. So I was like, if you put that on a dock in Manhattan, you’ve suddenly got basically a building on the waterfront. There also may be an altruistic version of this. Colin said, growing up in Staten Island, I went to this place called the Great Hill Swim Club. It was a swim club where people would just go and the kids could all hang out, the adults could hang out.

I could imagine creating a place like that that’s not a weird, fancy members club, but is actually more middle class in Manhattan. That’s never gonna happen. Let me know when that happens. Colin. He imagined a swimming board on the deck and a seasonal transfer to Miami to take advantage of Florida’s sunny winters.

There’s no way a ferry is going all the way down to Florida. None of that is going to happen. Ever. Tim Hideker caught up with The Hollywood Reporter the topic taking over info wars Highecker’s and said, it’s been a wild ride. I’ve been involved behind the scenes for several months.

I love playing with these people, and I’ve been following Alex Jones and the QAnon stuff for so long. I offered my help and heard nothing, because at that point it was kind of a stalemate. But it came back again last fall. There was a new energy behind it and they reached out to me. My initial thought was, Yeah, if you get this thing, it’ll be fun for a little while.

But then what where do you take it? How do you continue to jab at him? But maybe not in a direct satirical way. The idea from Tim what the world needs right now is a home for the people who used to make shows on Adult Swim in Comedy Central and are now scattered around social media making great stuff that isn’t curated and certainly not funded. Could the ultimate joke be that this turns into a place for thriving creativity and humor and goodwill.

Not Hackey stand up Specials, Not Rambling, four hour conspiratorial podcast by people who do sets at the comedy store Good Stuff. Robbie Hoffman was on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast and said, I’m the boy in my relationship. I pay a lot when somebody else is paying. It’s unusual for me. Robbie said, when she travels solo for work, she likes to keep things low key.

But when her wife, Gabby comes along, that’s when I splurge. We’re pressing play on the movie at the same time as a whole different experience, Robbie said, Gabby is a first class woman. People don’t want to see gabbin me necessarily an economy. They want a dream. We’ve been at it, They’ve seen us, and they’re like, hard work does not pay off at all, Like the American dream is that dead.

King Charles visited the United States this week. That leads to all sorts of stories that we’re going to talk about. Let’s start with some jokes from Jimmy Kimmel. The King of England is in the United States, King Charles and Queen Camilla are here to visit President beef on Wellington.

And also they have quite an itinerary.

They’re going to New York. They’re making a stop at the Wisconsin Dells. They’re going to a screening of the Delaware’s product to at the Burbank amc and I guess they’re wrapping it up with a fish concert in Vegas at the Sphere. Trump has a particular affinity for the royal family, and so in Washington they pulled out all the stops to welcome the King and Queen. The Department of Transportation lined the streets with what they thought was the Union jack.

The British flag turned out to be the Australian flag. Well, they had to take them all down and swap them out. Somehow, they they managed to screw everything up. It was a literal false flag operation going on there. Yesterday, the Royals joined the Trump’s for afternoon tea, and boy, would I love to be a fly on the cucumber sandwiches for that conversation.

No way, Trump was drinking tea, right. I bet they boiled some diet coke and put it in a cup for him. King Charles delivered a speech today before a joint session of Congress. His goal in this trip is to try to calm transatlantic tensions. Trump heard this ease and the Atlantic is transit out too now.

In this next section, the President was talking about his own parents and how they were together for sixty three years. Trump looks over at Milania and says, we’re not going to make it that long. Kimmel had some thoughts about that. Let’s listen. Trump was very excited about hosting the King, and a lot of it is because Trump’s mom was a great fan of the royal family.

My wonderful mother, Mary McLeod. She came to America at nineteen met my incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him, We loved her, We loved him Fred and they were married for sixty three years. And excuse me, if you don’t mind, that’s a record we won’t be able to match, Darling.

I’m sorry, just not going to work out that way. Wait a minute, did he just make a joke about his death? We should be fired for that. Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age.

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And then a daily go out and make a joke about his own all day.

Adam Carolla has come to Jimmy Kimmel’s defense about that whole backlash from the expectant widow joke. Corolla and I agree with this said, that’s a pretty typical roast joke. It’s also a trope any younger, beautiful woman who’s married to an older guy, especially if the guy’s rumored to be sort of douchey. You’d make that joke at any roast. Send your letters to Adam Carolla.

Ted Cruz, sticking up for Jimmy Kimmel sort of, I had mentioned that the FCC was possibly, perhaps maybe looking at the Disney TV licenses. Ted Cruz said, it is not government’s job to censor speech, and I do not believe the FCC should operate as the speech police. Stephen Colbert was profiled by The New York Times. I’m holding on to most of it for the week of Colbert’s last show, but one thing that came up is that after the first few months on the Late Show, his producer encouraged him to lean back into politics. Colbert said, at first the plan was to back away from politics after leaving the Colbert rapport.

Stephen told The Times it was my instinct to be less topical because I didn’t want to have to engage with what I saw was an increasingly contentious public discourse, and I thought, aren’t there other ways to have fun with the audience. But after the twenty sixteen National Party conventions gave Colbert an opportunity to do politics, Steven said he felt like Clint east Wood in Unforgiven. He buried his guns, and I’m like, you know, I buried those guns. I was talking to Paul Zanello, he’s one of my oldest friends and one of my producers here, and he’s like, you’re having fun. People love to see that.

And I said, but that means I gotta go dig up the guns. And he says, buddy, that’s the part the audience wants to see. Josh Johnson had some jokes about the ballroom. He told these on The Daily Show and told them much better than I will. But Josh said, I can’t believe they dissolved dose right before Trump demanded a four hundred million dollar ballroom.

It’s like how the Michael Jackson movie ended, right before he starts some molesting. You just went ahead and skipped all the important stuff. Huh. Honestly, as soon as I heard about the ballroom, I knew we had end up paying for it, Like Trump is the type of dude to win and dine you and then forget his wallet. One more, Josh said.

Don’t get me wrong, with so many seniors getting scammed in America, I’m glad one of them is turning the tables. I just don’t want it to be on us. Comedy stock Market. Thank you, Burt Reynolds Voice of the Comedy stock Market. That really is Burt Reynolds AI voice properly licensed.

Don’t worry about that. Talk to his estate. I don’t know. I just saw it available. I went, yeah, all right, I’ll use Burt Reynolds.

That’s fun, all right. This week’s Comedy stock Market is looking ahead to next week. It’s the Netflix is a Joe Comedy Festival, and I’ve got some buy recommendations. Let’s buy even some more Osco at Cotska because I’ve seen her latest hour and when she does it in LA in front of all the fancy press people, people are gonna notice because this hour is really good. She’s part of the festival.

So let’s buy some more Otsco. Let’s buy some Dave Chappelle. I know it’s obvious. It’s like me telling you to buy I don’t know apple stock, but yeah, let’s buy Dave Chappelle. He announced three shows at the festival.

They’re gonna be great. Everyone’s gonna be like Dave’s awesome. Some people are gonna get mad at some things, he says. You listen to the show, you know how this all goes. So yeah, let’s buy some Dave Chappelle.

Let’s buy some more Flight of the Concords. I just got a feeling. Yeah, okay, maybe the tickets aren’t quite six hundred and ten dollars anymore, but market correction. To me, that was always absurd. But I think people are gonna be really happy that those guys are back.

And I’ve got one more on the comedy stock market. I didn’t realize how funny this next person is. But here’s who we’re gonna buy, King Charles. I’ll play in a clip in a second, But those are your recommendations this week by Osco at Coonska by Dave Chappelle. Buy Flight of the Concords by King Charles, No sells Johnny Macker you had a good mood for once.

I know, right, Nope, no seals this week, all buys, All right, King Charles is actually really funny. He gave some great speeches. You can hear them all on the Palace Intrigue podcast. I’m the writer on that one. I was quoted in USA Today, and man other aggregators aggregated the USA Today article.

I’m in like all these publications all of a sudden because I am, of course a expert, which makes me smile. But I’ve also been writing the podcast for seven years. At this point, I really do know more about the British royal family than your average American. Now, your average brit not at all. But for a kid from Queen’s I’m pretty good anyway.

King Charles is hilarious. Let’s listen this said. French friends can feel equally at home with a glass at a map. Indeed, you recently commented, mister President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French.

Now. I don’t know how King Charles would feel about a recent show. Jenny Zigrino did. She dressed up as King George the Third. Yeah, that guy, the one we broke up with.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, Jenny was hosting a historical late night talk show called History Tonight. She was joined by Rob Crean, whose day job is a tour guide on the Freedom Trail. Rob Bla George’s sidekick former Prime Minister George Grenville. All the comics on the bill dressed as historical figures. Jenny explained, when I first moved to Boston for college, for Halloween, I dressed up as Amedeus and everybody thought I was Thomas Jefferson, which I was pretty mad about.

Jenny is a history buff. She hosted a show called Badass Bitches of History on Comedy Central’s digital channel in twenty eighteen, chronicling the contributions of mostly unheritled women. She says she wants to get back to some of her historical roots. She said, I’m just gonna embrace it. I’ve always loved history, so why not just do it now.

Even though she might have an Revolution era powdered wig on it doesn’t mean she can’t comment on current events. She said. It might even offer a better perspective. To talk about things like the no King’s protests, she said, and send her letters to her. You guys don’t want a king, but you have a mad king in office because you’re a character.

If you’re more leeway in what you could say. Having King George the Third, especially in drag because I’m a drag king talking about this, it’s more impactful than it was just me on stage doing it. Love it cultured magas and put out there Cultured one hundred. One of the Cultured one hundred is Caleb Heroon. They asked Caleb what keeps you up at night, and Caleb said, the size of the oceans in outer space.

I have to lie on myself when it comes up. I think about black holes and I get scared and then I go, that’s a myth, buddy, go to sleep and that helps, all right, Caleb, what are you looking forward to this year? Eating a grilled hot dog by a lake with just a tiny little sunburn this summer. Name and influence of yours that might surprise people, Caleb told the Culture Monique. Growing up, my dad showed me a lot of stand up by straight guys, and I liked it.

When I saw Monique’s Queens of Comedy set. She was outrageous and quick and fat and sexy and confident. I just couldn’t look away.

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And then she does precious legend in every sense of the word.

And if you’re in New Zealand, the New Zealand Comedy Festival has kicked off, taking place all month long now. The folks at stuff dot co dot Nz your home for New Zealand. Comedy News asked some of the comedians performing who they would go see. Courtney Dawson says, to go see the Coro Conicles by Hated Dawson, who happens to be her dad. Apparently her dad was always the cool dad growing up all right.

Abby Howell says, go see nos Feratu looking for Love. It’s funny, weird, I’ve seen it multiple times. Rhanna McCall dresses up as no s Faratu night after night with bald cap, white paint and full turtleneck under theater lights. She’s a madman. That’s fun.

Jerome Chandra Hazen says, go see Zach and Liza bought a gun. He says, I’ve never heard anyone else extole the virtues of Bucky’s gas stations for ten minutes and have the entire room enthralled. Joe Damon said, I’d like to recommend Sean Collier, who I believe his hands down one of the best comedians of the country. He juggles being a full time lawyer and recently moved to Australia for better prospects. It is absolutely killing it.

He’s still young and will be in his twenties when he hits a decade in comedy. Felicity Ward also says Rihanna and McCall on that no s Faratu show, so I will have to keep an eye on that.

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And also Tom Sainsbury, an irresistible charmbag that manages to somehow unlo…

The New Zealand International Comedy Festival today through the twenty fourth in Auckland and Wellington. One of these years I’m gonna do is like some massive international comedy festival tour. But this year I’m not even going to Los Angeles. I wanted to go, but my daughter who’s out there, is home from college in two weeks and you heard me tell the story already. Okay, I’ll see you tomorrow.